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        <title><![CDATA[She, with the beautiful exterior self, holds a strong dominance over him...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[She, with the beautiful exterior self, holds a strong dominance over him and this perfect quality captivates him as he say in a metaphorical flourish about the queen lavishing beauty and "goddess" look. He had already fallen in love with her and that "grand entrance" of hers gave light to his golden future and he knows he won't be despised by his low and humble beings and somebody do care for him. It brings a bright spark to his empty life and...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The single word, "again", suggests a great deal in this line and in this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The single word, "again", suggests a great deal in this line and in this story.  It means that the jeweller, Oliver Bacon, knows that the Duchess is dishonest when it comes to selling her jewelery; he's obviously been lied to by her before and suspects she is lying again.  The story tells us that Bacon, as a child, was poor and that his mother accused him of not having sense.  He worked hard, using his wits, to get ahead in the world and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:06:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the line "Was she lying again?"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the line "Was she lying again?"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:30:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does the duchess want to sell the pearls?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does the duchess want to sell the pearls?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:41:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Duchess is an inveterate gambler who keeps her addiction to gambling...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Duchess is an inveterate gambler who keeps her addiction to gambling and the huge financial losses she incurs because of her addiction to gambling a secret from her husband.  
She is selling ten pearls secretly to Oliver for twenty thousand pounds to pay a debt which she had incurred to pay off her gambling losses.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:24:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the relationship between the jeweller and the duchess?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the relationship between the jeweller and the duchess?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:53:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The duchess is deceitful in two crucial and related ways. First, she...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The duchess is deceitful in two crucial and related ways. First, she takes advantage of the jeweler's desire for Diana, and does so artfully, as seen in this passage: &quot; “You will come down to–morrow?” she urged, she interrupted. “The Prime Minister—His Royal Highness . . .” She stopped. “And Diana . . .” she added.&quot;Second, she sells false jewels for money, knowing he'll take them because of his clumsy desires for Diana. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:29:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the story &quot;The Duchess and the Jeweller&quot;, how is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the story &quot;The Duchess and the Jeweller&quot;, how is the duchess deceitful?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:05:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Oliver hears Diana's name, he feels and thinks several things....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Oliver hears Diana's name, he feels and thinks several things. First and most immediately, he loves her, so any mention of her name brings forth a surge of fond emotion and fantasy. He wants her, and, almost as badly, he wants to be part of the world she lives in and represents. On the other hand, mentioning her reminds him of the difficult position he's going to be put in. The duchess is selling him fakes, and he's paying her for them,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:53:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What association does the mention of Diana's name arouse in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What association does the mention of Diana's name arouse in the jeweller? Why do these associations create conflict for him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:07:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The point of Virginia Woolf's essay is to question the role of a female...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The point of Virginia Woolf's essay is to question the role of a female writer's in society.  This is a common theme in many of her essays.  She poses this question to ask the reader to consider the idea of the world's greatest writer having a sister who might have been similarly gifted.  Had he had a sister who was as brilliant and as talented, the world would still have never known it due to the role of women at the time. So she is asking...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:59:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the main argument, topic or symbolic meaning of &quot;What if...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the main argument, topic or symbolic meaning of &quot;What if Shakespeare Had Had a Sister?&quot; by Virginia Woolf?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:27:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There is a good summary here: http://www.enotes.com/duchess-jeweller-qn...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is a good summary here: http://www.enotes.com/duchess-jeweller-qn

But basically, Woolf's story is about a Duchess who goes to a jeweller to sell her Jewels.  Because the Duchess has a title, the Jeweller is impressed by her.  He pays her 20,000 pounds for a bunch of fake jewellery just so he can do business with her.  He trades his self-respect to consort with upper-class/royalty]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:57:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the story The Duchess and the Jeweller even about??]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the story The Duchess and the Jeweller even about??]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:52:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are several settings in Woolf's short story. It begins in Oliver...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are several settings in Woolf's short story. It begins in Oliver Bacon's home "overlooking the Green Park." He then walks along Piccadilly, on his way to his shop on Bond Street. All of these are in London. Those are the physical settings.

However, Bacon also slips off into memory and fantasy, and those might be considered settings.

Greg]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:18:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the setting of "The Duchess and the Jeweller"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the setting of "The Duchess and the Jeweller"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:28:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah, an interesting question. Truffles are considered quite precious....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ah, an interesting question. Truffles are considered quite precious. (They are very expensive food!)  For one to be rotten is a terrible disappointment.

Pigs are often used to sniff out truffles, and if pigs aren't, other lower animals like dogs are. This part is implied, not stated, but it refers to how much lower the jeweler sees himself as being than the duchess or Diana. Taken together, the lines therefore mean he sees himself as a lower...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:10:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the statement "the truffle he had routed out of earth" was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the statement "the truffle he had routed out of earth" was "Rotten at the center - - rotten to the core!" mean?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Feb 2007 06:44:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah, a subtle question. First and most simply, we're told that the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ah, a subtle question. First and most simply, we're told that the jeweler loves Diana. Therefore, the first association is that of love. After that, though, hearing her name reminds him that there are other things in play besides the wealth he would make from the Duchess. There are higher standards, and appearances of honor. He just can't test the pearl while thinking of her. Hearing her name makes him imagine the perfect life he might have,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:52:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What associations do the mention of Diana's name arouse in the jeweler?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What associations do the mention of Diana's name arouse in the jeweler?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Feb 2007 06:26:20 PST</pubDate>
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